It premiered on the Audience network on August 9, 2017.David E. Kelley is the showrunner and it stars Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway.On October 10, 2017,Mr. Mercedes Seasons 1-2 DVD the Audience Network renewed the series for a 10 episode second season set to premiere in 2018.Retired detective Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved case of Mr. Mercedes,who claimed sixteen lives when he drove a stolen Mercedes through a line of job seekers at a local job fair. Meanwhile,Mr. Mercedes Seasons 1-2brilliant young psychopath Brady Hartsfield, the real Mr. Mercedes, reemerges to focus his attention on Hodges. What begins as an online cat and mouse game between the two soon has deadly reallife consequences as an increasingly desperate Hartsfield becomes bent on leaving his mark on the world.The series was originally announced in July 2015.In May 2016, Audience ordered a 10-episode season and the initial cast was announced.In June 2016, Anton Yelchin, who was set to play Brady Hartsfield, died in a car accident.